The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . he says: By this I can make a vesselof as great burthen as the river can bear to goagainst the stream. . And this engineis applicable to any vessel or boat whatsoever,without therefore being made on . It roweth, it draweth, it driveth, to passLondon Bridge, against the stream at lowwater. Early Steamboats.— The nar-rated many years ago of Blasco de Garay in1543 at Barcelona moving a vessel by steampower, has long since b
The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . he says: By this I can make a vesselof as great burthen as the river can bear to goagainst the stream. . And this engineis applicable to any vessel or boat whatsoever,without therefore being made on . It roweth, it draweth, it driveth, to passLondon Bridge, against the stream at lowwater. Early Steamboats.— The nar-rated many years ago of Blasco de Garay in1543 at Barcelona moving a vessel by steampower, has long since been looked upon withdoubt. This was 100 years before the steam-engine was put to any practical use even inits crude form. Denis Papin and ThomasSavary had mentioned the application of steamto navigation about 1690, and the former issaid to have applied it on a model at a laterdate. In 1736 Jonathan Hull of England ob-tained a patent upon what would be termed astern wheel boat for towing purposes; but asthe steam-engine at that time was not in a formto adapt it for a vessel, and as it is said henever made a model of his invention, nor car-. Stevens Screw Steamer (1804). ried on any experiments to develop his patent,it is not clear where the claim appears of hisbeing the inventor of the steamboat. Experi-ments were made in France from 1759 to 1781by Gencvois and Perrier, when the Marquis deJoufTrey built on the river Saone a steamboatof 150 feet long by 15 feet wide, with whichhe made several experiments covering a periodof over a year, but defects developed in so serious that caused the projectto be abandoned. Patrick Miller of Scotlandin 17S8 had a double hull boat constructed 25feet long and 7 feet broad, and fitted with asteam-engine, under the supervision of WilliamSymington. It succeeded so well that he builtthe next year a larger double hull boat, and atrial was made on tlie Forth and Clyde Canalin the summer of 1789. when .seven miles anhour was made. The
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